Cocoa Loco started when Sarah Payne took a career break from her computer programming job to look after her children. She discovered that she was very good at making brownies. They were always in great demand when she went round to her friends’ houses. So one day she said to her husband Rory, “I’m going… Read more

It’s nearly the end of September but I still have that new term feeling. Summer holiday over. The start of a new season. Those annual autumnal health campaigns such as ‘Stoptober’ and Macmillan’s ‘Go Sober for October’. Yes, time to do things differently. Goal setting September. I’ve got two main goals. One relates to what… Read more

They raise awareness. They change behaviour. You feel better for it. As part of Kent County Council’s Six Ways to Wellbeing Campaign I’ve spent the last year recording people’s wellbeing stories. The Six Ways to Wellbeing are often fleeting things that we take for granted. Like saying hello to a colleague (‘connect’), opening the door… Read more

(What’s your ‘DOH!’ moment?) For the first quarter of a century of my working life, I saw myself as someone who didn’t take risks. I joined the BBC, intending to be a ‘lifer’. If you’d told me three years ago I’d be running my own business, I’d have laughed. Yes, I was a bit smug…. Read more